
Making the most of the family home while her parents are away, Nicole, 22 years old, is enjoying a peaceful summer with her best friend Véronique. When Nicole's older brother shows up with his band to record an album, the girls' friendship is put to the test. Their vacation takes an unexpected turn, punctuated by a heatwave, Nicole's growing insomnia and the persistent courtship of a 10-year-old boy.... (Full plot summary below)
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Making the most of the family home while her parents are away, Nicole, 22 years old, is enjoying a peaceful summer with her best friend Véronique. When Nicole's older brother shows up with his band to record an album, the girls' friendship is put to the test. Their vacation takes an unexpected turn, punctuated by a heatwave, Nicole's growing insomnia and the persistent courtship of a 10-year-old boy.
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| The PlaylistOliver Lyttelton...it's executed with such charm and skill in every gorgeous frame that I walked out completely and totally smitten. |
| Montreal GazetteBrendan KellyIt's hard to explain just why I so adored Tu dors Nicole. Can't you just take my word for it? |
| Cinema ScopeAngelo MureddaThough she's ultimately the second star after her director-who, from the tidy visual design to the odd soundscape, creates an almost annoyingly hermetic world-it's Côté that lets the whole thing breathe. |
| The Popcorn JunkieCameron WilliamsBeautifully understated and grumpy in that special 20-something kind of way |
| NOW TorontoRadheyan SimonpillaiLafleur counters the lackadaisical narrative with direction, editing and sound cues that are playful but precise, mysterious but potent, making every note in this exceptionally well-made film something to savour. |
| Toronto StarPeter HowellTu Dors Nicole accurately recreates that feeling of youth when the summer seemed like it would last forever. As the French say, it's très drôle. |
| Globe and MailLiam LaceyCharacter development and plotting are rudimentary, though the tongue-in-cheek never gets dislodged while the body count rises. |
| Slant MagazineClayton DillardStéphane Lafleur denies Nicole the angsty treatments given similar characters in films like The Graduate and Frances Ha by refusing to saturate the film with an undergirding sense of charm. |
| Voices & VisionsJim LaczkowskiThere hasn't been a more beautifully melancholic movie this decade that has captured what I've experienced both inside and out. It's about fragility, friendship, personal growth and being okay with the mundane. |
| New York Magazine/VultureBilge EbiriMaybe, in another time and place, and with different actors and a better director, it might have worked. But this thing collapses right from the get-go. |